Public Inquiries and Policy Design / Alastair Stark and Sophie Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stark, Alastair, author.

Yates, Sophie, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in public policy 2398-4058.

Elements in Public Policy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Governmental investigations.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (62 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Public inquiries regularly produce outcomes of importance to policy design. However, the policy design literature has largely ignored the many important ways that public inquiries can act as policy design tools, meaning the functions that inquiries can offer the policy designer are not properly understood. This Element addresses this gap in two ways. First, it presents a theoretical discussion, underpinned by international empirical illustrations, to explain how inquiries perform policy design roles and can be classified as procedural policy tools. It focuses on four inquiry functions - catalytic, learning, processual, and legitimation. Second, it addresses the challenge of designing inquiries that have the policy-facing capacities required to make them effective. It introduces plurality as a key variable influencing effectiveness, demonstrating its relevance to internal inquiry operations, the external inquiry environment, and policy tool selection. Thus, it combines conceptual and practical insights to speak to academic and practice orientated audiences

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Feb 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009286862

1009286862

9781009286909

1009286900

9781009286879

1009286870